Don’t worry, Chalamaniacs, Timmy will be fine!

by Cláudio Alves

First look at Timothée Chalamet in DUNE: PART THREE | © Warner Bros.

The period between the Oscar nominations announcement and the actual 98th Academy Awards ceremony hasn’t been easy for Timothée Chalamet’s most ardent fans. From presumed Best Actor frontrunner, he became an also-ran. Honestly, considering what we saw of the final results, he may not have been the second-placer either. Anyway, more than losing the prize, he was the butt of half a dozen jokes throughout the ceremony, with the winning team from Two Strangers Exchanging Saliva going as far as alluding to the opera and ballet comments that set social media and the world of performing arts aflame in the week after Oscar voting closed. However, the situation can and has been a tad overblown.

So, as the title suggests, I’m here to ask Chalamaniacs not to worry, not to panic, calm down. Timmy will be just fine…

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Ranking the 2025 Oscar Clips

By Ben Miller

It's been a few years, but we are finally back! The Oscars brought back acting clips for the Oscars and I'm here to rank them from 20 to 1. Let's get to it!

What Are We Doing?

"If there's a straight line, you've got a problem."

20. Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
19. Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
18. Amy Madigan, Weapons

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Split Decision: "Sinners"

In the Split Decision series, our writers pair up and face off on an Oscar-nominated movie one loves and the other doesn't. Tonight, LYNN LEE and NICK TAYLOR discuss Sinners.

NICK: Lynn, I think you’re one of the only people on this site - maybe in the entire world - whose opinion on Sinners I don’t know. The most nominated film in Oscar’s history deserves a volley before the big night! For my part, I think Ryan Coogler’s ambition is off the charts, and I genuinely can’t wait to see what he and his team are going to do with their blank check. The execution of that ambition, from plotting to formal execution, is very uneven to me, and I have a hard time reconciling what’s so exciting with what’s undernourished. But before I continue, please tell me what you think of Sinners!!

LYNN: Funny, I feel like I've been singing the praises of Sinners so much lately, I'm finding it difficult to avoid repeating myself!  It was my #1 movie of 2025, and I think it deserved many, if not most, of its Oscar nominations...

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Split Decision: “Marty Supreme”

In the Split Decision series, our writers pair up and face off on an Oscar-nominated movie one loves and the other doesn't. Today, ABE FRIEDTANZER and CLÁUDIO ALVES discuss Marty Supreme...

ABE: In 2024, I achieved an exciting milestone: seeing all the major Oscar movies before Thanksgiving. The last one I caught was the late-breaking Timothée Chalamet movie no one had seen yet, A Complete Unknown. Since I'm not into music all that much, I was impressed but not wowed, but happy at least, even if just for prognostication purposes, to have seen a film that was going to factor into the Oscar race.

It's amusing that, one year later, the film that nearly eluded me and turned out to be close to my last one to screen was also a little-seen late-breaking Timothée Chalamet movie. The difference here, however, was that Marty Supreme had its surprise premiere at the New York Film Festival, and then I managed to RSVP for an FYC screening in mid-October in LA that disappeared from listings moments later. I got to the Academy Museum and only found my seat ten minutes after the screening was supposed to start, stunned at how popular this hard-to-see film was. I knew nothing about it other than that it was Josh Safdie's first time directing a movie on his own in many years, and Chalamet was supposed to be incredible. Several hours later, I found myself in solid agreement…

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2025 in Review: Leading Ladies and Headlining Men

by Nathaniel R

Chalamet may have talked himself out of an Oscar but if he wins for "Marty Supreme", he won't be undeserving

It's finally time -- well, long past time -- to post my own ballots for Best Actress and Best Actor. As with the Supporting categories, I had to first narrow it down to a top twelve which you can see after the jump...

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